Pretty Little Liars Episode 5x21 Bloody Hell

Clues in this Episode that Aria isA

The episode opens with the girls visiting Alison in jail. Spencer and Emily are feeling guilty about how they blamed and treated Alison, but Aria has no sympathy. She doesn't want to be coming to Ali with her "tail between her legs" and claims that Ali is in jail because of Karma, implying that she is where she belongs. Emily says although Ali has done a lot of horrible things, she is in prison for a crime she didn't commit and she wouldn't wish that on her worst enemy. Aria says that Ali is her second worst enemy. Aria is showing so much more hatred and anger toward Alison than the other girls and you definitely get the feeling that we don't know all of the history between Alison and Aria. As the girls are leaving, Ali calls Aria back and tells her that she has to tell her lawyers about Mike. She will give the girls a little time and she isn't trying to hurt Mike but if it comes to it she will have to get Mike involved. Aria is none too happy to hear this. Right after this visit with the girls, Alison begins to receive A messages and threats in prison. Alison has been in jail for weeks and it isn't until she tells Aria that she is going to talk about Mike's involvement that she begins to receive A threats. No coincidences in Rosewood!

Aria is wearing an interesting outfit in this scene. She is dressed very much like Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Notice the hair in the bun, the black top with white neck piece. This also looks very similar to the look Alison was going for in her fake passport photo bearing the name Holly Varjak. In the book/movie, the main character is Holly Golightly who has some likable qualities, but who is really a shell of a person who never seems to feel really connected to anyone or anything. She even refuses to name her cat who she eventually abandons in a bad part of town at the end of the book. Holly's cat is a symbol in the story of Holly's inability to connect and form real and lasting relationships. Paul Varjak is one of Holly's love interests in the story but he is not successful enough to be of real interest to Holly. In the end, Holly flies away and Paul never hears from her again. In A is for Answers, Ali told Aria that Ezra once compared her to Holly Golightly, which at first she thought was a compliment but then realized otherwise. The Breakfast at Tiffany's references continue in the next few episodes So more will be coming about this, but it is interesting that this reference connects Aria, Alison and Ezra and seems to be laying the framework for something, possibly clues to Aria's motive for being A. And Ali sure does look like Aria in the passport photo.

Aria hires Spencer's mom in this episode. She pays her one dollar to be her lawyer for an hour. We are not privy to what they discuss but presumably it is about how much trouble Mike would be in if his knowledge of Mona's plan was known by police. It seems like he could be in a lot of trouble.Hanna shows up and wants Spencer to postpone her trip to London and come clean with her mother about everything and ask Veronica for help with A. Aria immediately asserts "Hanna we can't do that!" Why is it that it is always Aria stopping the girls from telling someone in authority about A?

Andrew is waiting for Aria when she returns home and asks her out on a date to see All The President's Men. He tells her she won't regret going, "it's a thriller about a shadowy figure who knows everyone's secrets". Very interesting choice of words here. Andrew knows more about Aria than we know.

Later in the episode Andrew tells Aria that for a petite girl she brings a lot of chaos. Andrew's comments are sure spot on when it comes to Aria.

Aria then shows up at Hanna's house trying to convince her to go talk to Cyrus with her. Turns out Aria already knows how to reach Hector, or Cyrus. Why does Aria keep referring to Cyrus as Hector? The girls only know him as Cyrus but Aria keeps referring to him as Hector which is confusing Hanna. That is interesting because even if you found out that someone actually has a different name than the one that you call them, it still takes you a while to start calling them by that different name. Well for Aria, she seems more comfortable calling him Hector, like she knew him as Hector first and Cyrus second?? And either Aria already knew that Cyrus had had an accident fixing a car because she had something to do with this accident, or she did some investigating on her own. Either way makes Aria look suspicious. When the girls visit Cyrus he is in bad shape in the burn unit. he names Varjak as the one who caused his accident. Back to the Breakfast at Tiffany's reference. After the girls are out of Cyrus' hospital room, we see that someone was hiding as a patient in the room and it is implied that this person causes Cyrus to have a medical set back. This person in the hospital just happens to wear the same sneakers as Andrew. And it is not a coincidence that Andrew has been seen stalking people with Aria lately. Looks like Andrew is A's latest minion. Perhaps he is even using the name Varjak in his work for A .

Meanwhile, back in London Spencer is having a great interview at Oxford until the professor interviewing her points out the blood that is seeping out of her purse. Spencer runs out of the interview and hysterically calls Aria to tell her what happened. Right after she hangs up with Aria, she receives an A message taunting her. This message had to come from Aria. Only Aria, Spencer and the Oxford professor knew about this incident, and only Aria knew the exact best time to taunt and scare Spencer about it. The timing of this A message makes Aria look very suspect.

Aria shared a kiss with Andrew this episode and accepted a date with him. Aria has now cheated on every guy we have seen her with on Pretty Little Liars. She cheated on Noel with Ezra and Jake with Ezra. And remember when Aria found out about Ezra's book and escaped to Syracuse for the weekend because she probably couldn't face him because she knows he know she's A... well she had a one night stand in Syracuse that weekend. She just told Andrew she wasn't available because she was still in a relationship with Ezra, but seems she changed her mind pretty quickly. Aria's behavior in relationships is a glimpse into her personality and it seems like Aria is able to dismiss other people's feelings pretty easily. This behavior is similar to Holly Golightly right?

At the end of the episode, Veronica Hastings reads through Alison's file. At one point she notices something urgent and calls Spencer to call her asap and to cancel her flight home. Something in that file, perhaps combined with what Aria spoke with her about scared Veronica who obviously fears Spencer is in danger. We also see A putting bills into bibles marking a passage about vengeance. A putting bills in the bibles immediately reminds me of Aria giving a bill to Veronica. And why the bible? Is this a prediction that A is looking for vengeance on Hanna (who is the liar with the church connection in pastor ted). Hanna has been a loose cannon lately regarding the A game. She wants to confess everything and finally ask for help and is not interesting in playing along with all of A's games.